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The Danger Shop was set up to look like a park today... if the park had been designed by someone with a really strange sense of fun. For one, halfway between the playground-- which was where the students would find themselves upon arriving-- and the picnic area stood a small but twisty maze of shrubbery. Just past the maze was a very large (but shallow) patch of muddy ground, and on the far side of the picnic area stood a tall, smooth-barked tree. Anyone listening closely, or who happened to have enhanced hearing, might be able to pick up on faint but plaintive mewing from up in the branches.

"So what are you gonna do when you have a thing come up unexpectedly, and you have to solve it with a quickness?" Kennedy began conversationally. "No time for research or making plans, and maybe you're in over your head because this is something you've never had to deal with before? In a group, that is. By yourself is different. I mean, the thinking on your feet is the same, but there's a whole thing about communicating and being on the same page as other people that makes things tricky."

She turned around and waved a hand at the setup in front of them. "So here's your sitch. You have a big important party to get to in an hour. Real fancy, black tie, missing it is not an option, oh, and you're already dressed up and on your way there. Except there's one problem. That cat stuck in the tree? Supposed to be a present for the guest of honor. You're gonna need to get it out of there... and you need to go through all of this to do it. Could get messy if you're not careful. Good luck with that."

Inspired by something she'd had to do last week? Maybe, yeah.

She paused as if remembering something, then added, "And watch out for the random clay guys lurking in the maze. They're not very friendly."

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Let us be thankful that Ace was English, or else Victor would have regarded that as a cue to break out a dreadful Dallas impersonation. But he couldn't do a bad accent in the face of someone with a real one, so:

"Movies," he explained. "It's ... like a James Bund parody. The first two are pretty funny. Anyhow, the villain's got this bald cat he carries around." He glanced to Ace. "You should see them."

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"Along with everything else that's come out in the last twenty-five years." Though Ace frowned a bit at bald cat. "Did you know there's four Illinois Smith films now?"

"Yakko said so during class Monday," Victor remembered, and frowned again. "Professor Yakko? Mr. Warner? It sounds wrong no matter what."

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"Professor Puppy-Head?" Ace suggested, grinning again.

"He'd probably take it as a compliment," Victor decided, and glanced back toward Kennedy. "... y'know, this lady is my most normal teacher? School is warped."

This was not precisely an insult.

Ace snorted. "What school isn't? I reckon it's a toss-up between her and my art teacher, though, for normal." Yeah, she'd just leave the therapy bit off the end, thanks. "Since the other one's this bloke who got frozen in World War Two."

"Either I know who that is, or there's more than one of them," Victor told her, and neither would surprise him. "And is the time travel girl calling somebody else weird for being frozen for a while?"

"Nah - they had cryogenics on Iceworld, where I was before here -- from what I heard it scrambled your brain something fierce, though." Ace nodded toward their current teacher. "But she seems like she's not much older than us; same with the art teacher."

Which was also weird, of course, but people her own age tended to fall more closely into Ace's definition of normal.

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The problem with spending a year with teenage runaways with authority issues was that everybody older than 17 or so tended to kind of blur into seeming the same age, and that was especially true with authority figures. Victor hadn't really given Kennedy's actual age much thought, so he had to give her a second look.

"Huh, yeah," he acknowledged. "She's ... maybe 20, 22? I always think teachers should be way older."

Ace nodded. "At my old school, the youngish ones tended to get married and disappear fast, and we always got stuck with some old dragon who looked carved out of petrified wood."

Victor snorted. "Sounds like my algebra teacher. My old school was just ... you know. A city school. A lot bigger than this."

Ace nodded. "So's Greenford High. Something like a thousand kids? Maybe two. This place has what, a hundred?"

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